Re: [Ikvm-developers] Java 8

[Jeroen F. <je...@su...>]

Integrating a new OpenJDK version is a pretty big chunk of work and I've been pretty busy lately with my real job, so I don't know when I'll have it done. I definitely wouldn't take any scheduling dependencies on it yet.

Regards,
Jeroen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Cawse [mailto:nei...@ho...]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 21:18
> To: ikv...@li...
> Subject: [Ikvm-developers] Java 8
> 
> Jeroen first off I'd like to add to the thanks for all your good working
> building IKVM. We have been using it for years very successfully
> (migrated the POI Excel library to c#). Amazing work really.
> 
> My question is around support for Java 8. With Java 8 around the corner,
> we are internally wanting to start building some Java code in 8 because
> of the improved date libraries among others but have the code fully
> usable in c#. Looks like if you are updating ikvm, you may want to wait
> for release before you do this? Perhaps its a lot of work merging your
> changes into the OpenJDK 8?
> If you could let us know your plans and timeline around this it would be
> appreciated?
> 
> thanks
> Neil